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Local News Stories on 2023-2024 GET Lab AiR, Nneka MacGregor and Dr. Marsha Hinds Myrie
Guelph Mercury: ‘A form of reparations’: University of Guelph welcomes new activists-in-residence
Guelph Today Success Story: U of G activists in residence unite activism with academia
University of Guelph News: Bringing Our Time to Life: Deepening Our Impact on the World
2022-2023 GET Lab AiR Gabriel Allahdua receives national and local media coverage
CTV News Kitchener: Meet Gabriel Allahdua, the University of Guelph’s first activist-in-residence
Farmtario News: Activist gets new post at University of Guelph: Migrant worker proponent first-activist-in-residence
Inaugural Activist-in-Residence (AiR), Gabriel Allahdua, features in the top stories of U of G news
“The University of Guelph has named Gabriel Allahdua its first activist-in-residence, a role based at the Grounded and Engaged Theory Lab (GET Lab) in the College of Arts.
Allahdua, a longtime advocate with Justice for Migrant Workers, will bring his knowledge and experience of farm worker issues and his organizing skills to the role, designed to connect activists with academic researchers.
The activist-in-residence position is new to the University of Guelph and one of only a handful in all of Canada. Merging academia and activism in other disciplines is not new. However, “it is unique to political theorists and political philosophers and is another reason for the development of the GET Lab,” said Dr. Candace Johnson, professor in the Department of Political Science.”
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